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ITALY and ITALIANS Through the Lenses of the Magnum Photographers ITALY AND ITALIANS Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Italy and Italians Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Naples, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano 30 March - 24 June 2012 Fine art photography projected staged by as part of marking 150 years since Italian Unification Sponsored by In association with Department for Culture and Tourism Scientific committee Marco A. Bazzocchi, Gianfranco Brunelli, Dario Cimorelli, Paolo M. Grandi, Aldo Grasso Curated by Gianfranco Brunelli, Dario Cimorelli Project director Lorenza Bravetta Project co-ordinators Camilla Invernizzi, Andrea M. Massari ITALY AND ITALIANS Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Artistic director Christophe Renard Project assistants Paula Juchem, Maria Elena Mira, Francesca Serravalle Photographers’ assistants Irene Alison, Annalisa D’Angelo, Lorenzo Giordano, Marco Gualtieri, Francesco Merlini, Francesca Parenti, Pietro Rossello, Alessandro Sala, Sveva Taverna, Cristina Vatielli Exhibition layout Stefano Trucco Text by Claudio Jampaglia Translations Tabitha Sowden Prints Dupon, Magnum Photos Lab, Cesuralab, Vimagie, Mark Power Studio, Davide di Gianni, Paolo Lecca Sound editing Stefano Breda Catalogue Silvana Editoriale Text by Marco A. Bazzocchi, Pippo Ciorra, Flaminio Gualdoni Intesa Sanpaolo Giovanni Bazoli Chairman of the Supervisory Board Andrea Beltratti Chairman of the Management Board Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer ITALY AND ITALIANS Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Paolo M. Grandi Head of the General Secretariat of the Supervisory Board Vittorio Meloni Head of the External Relations Department Luca Tedesi Real Estate and Procurement Department General Secretariat of the Supervisory Board Archaeological, Historic and Artistic Assets Andrea M. Massari Head Antonio Ernesto Denunzio Co-ordinator of the Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano Museum Complex Aurelio Eremita Co-ordinator, Real Estate and Exhibitions Silvia Foschi Co-ordinator, Project and Event Management Isabella Sala Co-ordinator, Communication Publishing and Music Projects Rosanna Benedini External Relations Department Corporate Image Gabriella Gemo Media Relations Matteo Fabiani, Antonella Zivillica Real Estate and Procurement Department Technical Service, Engineering Office Massimo Pignatelli, Carlo Corigliano ITALY AND ITALIANS Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Magnum Photos Giorgio Psacharopulo Managing Director Lorenza Bravetta Head of Continental Europe Maria Elena Mira Executive Production Manager Clarisse Bourgeois Digital Production Catherine Brun, Carine Farnault Administration Photographs by Christopher Anderson Bruce Gilden Harry Gruyaert Richard Kalvar Alex Majoli Paolo Pellegrin Mark Power Mikhael Subotzky Donovan Wylie Inauguration of Italy and Italians. Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Presentation by Giovanni Bazoli Authorities, guests, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank the whole of Naples, Mayor Luigi De Magistris and the City Councillor for Culture Antonella Di Nocera, whom we are honoured to have here today. Italy and Italians , the photographic exhibition we are opening today, is the ideal way to round off celebrations marking 150 years since Italian Unification. It forms part of the commitment which Intesa- Sanpaolo has stepped up over the past two years: to play a key role not only in the economic and social development of our local communities, but also in their cultural development. The Intesa-Sanpaolo Group can draw on a specific condition and opportunity: the ties between the Group’s own particular identity and the historical and geographic makeup of the Italian identity. We are an Italian bank and a local bank at the same time. This is both a privilege and a responsibility. Through this exhibition, we set out to express once again the Group’s need and wish to take an active part in the community, and to do this with a new and wider cultural commitment. With this and future projects, we aim to reclaim our Bank’s historical vocation towards cultural commitments. How else can we create a united front for Italy today and contribute to its vital integration (for ours is such a polycentric country), unless we put our efforts into cultural ideas? Only by acting at this level can we recover for ourselves and the world the image of a country with a solid, open identity, at once ancient and modern. Naples is at the centre of this project. The bank’s historic links to culture must be seen not only in terms of conserving and optimising our own artistic and cultural heritage, but most importantly in terms of new projects. In 2011 we opened an important new museum hub in Milan’s Piazza della Scala dedicated to the 19 th century. We reflected at length on the protagonists and movements which shaped Italy throughout the Risorgimento with a series of conferences entitled “Defeated Winners ”. The conferences also focused – quite rightly – on the contribution which the South of Italy made to Unification. We had widespread commitments around the country, accompanying and supporting the official 150-year celebrations in various cities, from Florence and Turin to Vicenza. Finally, we will be opening a significant new section of our museum in Milan next autumn, this time dedicated to the 20 th century. Today we are here to present this original exhibition of photographs. It will certainly not be our only project in Naples. The exhibition we are launching today, “Italy and Italians. Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers”, is the result of a unique analysis of Italy by nine photographers from the world’s most important photographic agency. As we mark 150 years since Unification, the Magnum photographers have embarked on a new “Italian Journey ” using the power of the image, focusing their lenses on Italy and on us. It is a celebration of our history in the present, an attempt to build bridges between yesterday and tomorrow, a homage to our reasons and emotions. After all, the same Italian values and sentiments which created and animated a century-and-a-half of Italian history will be responsible for shaping its future. These photographs capture an image of Italy, a snapshot to use the language of photography, or a still to use the language of film. They highlight the features of a changing nation, a multifaceted, multi- layered reality with excellences but also difficulties and fears. There is no nostalgic view of landscapes, perspectives and views which are now lost forever. Instead it is a real portrait of the life of Italy and Italians at this decisive moment not only for our history, but also for Italy’s present and future. The journey fixes in our minds a non-stereotypical image of natural and artificial landscapes, of places and people. The story is told through: villages and piazzas, new meeting places, Italians’ relationships and habits, the present and the future, social exclusion and solidarity, research and innovation, ending with the faces of the young people who symbolise the conscious, critical expectations of tomorrow’s world. The lesson from the 150 th anniversary of Italian Unification which has just concluded, reflected so accurately in the exhibition, lies in the moral and civil belief that Italy needs to refocus on the deep meaning of its civilisation. This is both a necessity and a profound hope. ITALY AND ITALIANS Through the lenses of the Magnum photographers Magnum photographers Christopher Anderson Canada, 1970 Christopher Anderson first gained recognition for his photographs in 1999, when he boarded a handmade wooden boat with Haitian refugees trying to sail to America. The boat, named the Believe in God , sank in the Caribbean. The images from the journey won Christopher the Robert Capa Gold Medal. The project marked the emergence of an emotionally charged style which he refers to as “experiential documentary” and has come to characterise his work since. In 2001 Anderson won the Kodak Young Photographer Award for his story about Gaza. The same year he also received the Visa d’Or Award at the Visa pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan. In 2005 he was named NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year. He has explored the possibilities of multimedia, producing documentaries on Bolivia and Lebanon for Magnum in Motion. Anderson is involved in the multimedia Off-Broadway project in New York, Arles, Berlin, São Paulo and Milan with five other photographers. He joined the VU’ agency in 2002. Anderson has worked as a contract photographer for Newsweek and National Geographic Magazine, photographing regions at war over the past ten years. In recent years his work has become intensely personal with his book Son . A member of Magnum Photos since 2005, Anderson is also the author of two monographs: Non fiction, published in 2003, and Capitolio , published in 2009 by RM and voted one of the best photographic books of 2009/10 at the Kassel Photo Book Festival in Germany. He lives in New York. Donovan Wylie Northern Ireland, 1971 Donovan Wylie became a full-time member of Magnum Photos in 1998. He has had solo exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery, London (2004), the National Media Museum, Bradford (1996) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2007). He has also taken part in numerous group shows at some of the world’s major museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. In 2011 Wylie received the Bradford Fellowship for Photography. In association with the Imperial War Museum, London, he produced a series of photographs
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